Streamline sending mails to a group of users

[felixrindt]

We have a couple places where we users can manually notify a group of users:

• announcing a new event
• event reminder
• mailing all participants of an event

And I think there should be another place to do that with the users filtered in the user list.

Now, I think it would be great in many cases if I could customize the message before sending and review the recipients in a separate view. All the buttons for the event notifications could still exist but would redirect to a view with subject, body and event prefilled. You could add/remove participants, customize the text and hit send.

[jeriox]

I would vote for making that view optional, so still keep a one-click solution for new events etc. as most people won't bother customising and could be annoyed by the extra step.

How would you realize the customization of the body? I was thinking about the way the actions are handled, layouting etc.

[felixrindt]

I would vote for making that view optional, so still keep a one-click solution for new events etc. as most people won't bother customising and could be annoyed by the extra step.

Hmm maybe we should ask users whether they prefer the extra step for checking what's being send or having the one-click option but with two buttons.

How would you realize the customization of the body? I was thinking about the way the actions are handled, layouting etc.

Just have a TextField prefilled with the body text. If an event is attached the event info is rendered below by proprietary html.